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It’s summer. It’s hot and it’s a wonderful time for cool dishes that are quick to prepare and/or keep well in the fridge.

One of my favorite things about working with preschool-aged children is watching their minds work and grow. They are constantly absorbing information, adding to their files, observing and cataloging. I love meeting them where they are and then giving them one more piece to add to their knowledge—a new bit of vocabulary, an expansion of an idea, a question to get them pondering. But even more than that, I love how they surprise me and tickle my funny bone, just by being themselves.

Our cat, Posey, is definitely not the boss of us. I mean, sure, she has her ways of getting what she wants. And she has her ways of letting us know what she doesn’t want. And we like it when she’s happy… but she’s not the boss.

Last week my husband and I celebrated a milestone; we have now been married for 21 years. To commemorate the occasion, we went out to an early dinner, bought a set of towels for our bathroom (and retired the old ones to the garage) and looked at our wedding album.

David Escobar spoke Aug. 23 to the Windsor Democratic Club about his people, the Lenca-Pocan of the eastern El Salvador-Honduras-Nicaragua region and the effects of immigration on both the immigrant and the country they arrive at.

Wine and weed come together at Santa Rosa symposium George Christie began to drink wine in moderation as a college student in New Jersey, which calls itself “The Garden State” and though it has beautiful farms, it’s not known for vines and wines. “It was...

At the age of 22, I didn’t drink alcohol or smoke marijuana, either. I didn’t know anything about pot, though I assumed it was a dangerous drug that would damage my brain. As a student I didn’t want to fry my precious brain cells.